We are pleased to announce that Virologica Sinica has formally established an annual award “VS Highly Cited Paper Award” since 2017. The authors of the awarded articles will be recognized with a certificate personally signed by the editor-in-chief.

Selection criteria:
Based on the core database of Web of Science–SCIE, most cited articles were selected according to the citations from the beginning of 2015 to Dec 31 2017 of the articles published in 2015 and 2016. The awarded papers in 2017 are as following:

First Prize

The role of Epstein-Barr virus infection in the pathogenesis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma